"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman

Archive for January 14th, 2015

1. When in a funk, should a writer wait for inspiration or write about the size, shape and color of the writer’s block? 2. The best a poet can hope for is to speak broken poetry because poetry is a pre-verbal language. 3. My newspaper writing: On the front page today, in the woodpile tomorrow. […]

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From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia I write to synthesize what I'm learning at the time, whether it be poetry, a political commentary, or a letter to my family in Hull, Massachusetts, where I'm originally from. Whenever I don't know exactly what it is I'm doing and it borders on wasting my time, I call it research. 'Dear Abby, How can I get rid of freckles?' was my first published piece at the age of 11.